TED
is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out
(in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.
Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED
Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in
Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open
Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's
TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.